NANCY
WOW!--- AM I GLAD MISS RITZ WILL BE BACK SOON--- ONE MORE WEEK WITH "NANCY AND 1,
BOY
CONTROL YOURSELF ---JUST SUPPOSE YOU HAD CHILDREN
OF YOUR OWN /
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I JUST WISH
NANCY WAS MY CHILD!
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GOODNESS!--- AND I THOUGHT
HE DIDN'T, LIKE ME!
August 1, 1940.
By Ernie Bushmiller
CHEER UP, MR. SPUTTER-~. WHEN AUNT FRITZI GETS BACK I'LL STILL COME AND VISIT YOU EVERY SINGLE
DAY!
JING-17
POSED AS AMBASSADOR No Greeting For
SECRET AGENT
A REMARKABLE story of an eighteen-year-old Army private, posing as a Secret Service officer and throwing an expen- sive party at the Savoy Hotel, London, which cost between £300 and £400, was told at Bath,
Accused was Rowland Jones, and +++
he pleaded matty ai Buth Quarter Sessions to obtaining food and wine from a Bath hatel to the value of £10 by false pretchers by posing an an officer. He also admitted forging bankers' cheques
and
uttering them.
- Douglas George William Cooper, twenty-one, and Thomas Victor Vig- gars, twenty-seven, two other pol- diers, were also accused on the false pretences charge, but they found not guilty and discharged.
were
Mr. C. F. Ingle; proseculing, said Jones approached the other two men with a wonderful story that he was in the Secret Service, and invited them to join him.
He told them they would have to go to London to meet their superior offeer.
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There was a dinner party at the Savoy Hotel, attended by large number of people of both sexes, in- cluding officers.
It was a lavish affair, and the management were taken in.
They then went to Brighton, where he persuaded them to buy officers' uniforms, and from Brighton they went to Bath.
Lady of the
Lake-No Lady!
AN undergraduate who gate- crashed water pareant and did A strip-tease net was chased by thousands of
at angry girls Wellesley Ladies College, Massa- chuseifs.
As a dignified pageant of tableaux was taking place on a lake outside the college, sudden. ly into the limelight came a bargo with a pedestal on which Alinsky Harvard undergraduate wood slowly disrobing.
Women professors screamed, The limelight was switched off As motor-launches daslied to. wards the barge.
Women tried to leap on the barge and seize the male strip- teaser, but he got ashore,
There thousands of shrieking girls gave chase, but he escaped. ~f~f|||=|wf|uj|u|||||||||||++
A Russia appears to bo- como warlike along the Ru- manian border, new duties devolve on Britain's Ambasa- dor to Moscow, Sir Stafford Cripps, above. His mission in Russia has been to wean So- vict from Nazis,
Hitler
KINK. GUSTAV of Sweden; President Kyoɛti Kallio of Fin- land, and Stalin were not listed among the rulers who sent con- gratulations to Hitler on his fifty-first birthday on Saturday, according to an announcement read over the German-controlled Copenhagen radio.
Hitler celebrated his birthday with the usuni conferences with his mill- tary advisers at the Relch Chancel- lery. Only once did he step out on to the balcony overlooking the WII- helmplatz to acknowledge the cheers of, the excited crowd.
The collection of old metal, of vital necessity for Germany's war effort, which the German people made as their gift for Hitler's birth- day. was "an astonishing success," according to Field-Marshal Goering
Signor Mussolini's birthday greet- ings to his fellow dletator expressed "definite confidence that the German people will victoriously stand great test under which they arc
Uncrowned Empress placed."
Once called "the uncrowned Em- press of Austria," Katherina Schratt has died in Vienna.
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Britain has 67 more millionaires
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